I was born in Milan, Italy, where I also went to school. I remember always being fascinated by science and intrigued by how things work. I think I wasn't missing any documentary on TV or buying that book that was explaining how planets formed or how the dinosaurs got extinct. And I was crazy about animals and nature... I liked to draw animals and I loved – and confess I still do – those books with a lot of detailed illustrations showing the different habitats and all the animals living there. They could show me any picture of an animal and I could tell its name!

Anyway, technology was stronger in making me choose to attend Science High School and then I continued studying Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano.
Those years were very precious to my personal formation and even if I changed course later, I learned how to face and solve problems, how to look at things in a certain way and I have been able to apply the same mind process learned at college to many different situations in any field.

I love mountains and mountain climbing, enjoying an easy trekking as much as an ice ascent to the highest peaks in the Alps. I love all kind of movies – but horror and psychological dramas – and I am a Disney and sci-fi fan and avid collector. I like life and traditions from the islands of Hawai'i and I have always been interested in the culture of Native Americans. And of course, photography is one of my passions, a passion that finds its way and embrace all the other interests touching them in different ways. Started very early and continued along the years, I taught photography at school and worked for some magazines, but it remained mostly a hobby and the possibility to capture all the different ways life expresses itself around us. And for a fortunate as well as improbable chain of events, I can say photography brought me my job at Disney and the opportunity to meet my lovely wife.